Absolute frustration at not being able to see my own DPS (ps4)

[Kaurie]

My perceived reality can be the sun rising in the morning because I perceive the warmth of it's light. Of course the sun is in fact rising casting the warm light, so it's both reality and my perceived reality.

Just a note, the sun rising is your perceived reality but not an actual reality. The sun is not rising, the reason it appears to be rising is the planet rotated in a way relative to the sun that it looks that way (TLDR has more to do with the planet moving than the sun moving).

As for parsing, I feel very late to this thread and there are so many arguments, but here is my 2 cents.

Personal Parsers are more likely to encourage bad behavior than public ones, this is because in addition to the concerns of "elitists" forcing their standards on others, there will also be people who attack others and lie about their own progress. You'll have people demanding others post their parse, and people talking smack about others not performing well. When they say 'well my parser actually says'... 'Yeah right lol noob, we don't believe you. stop making up sh*t" etc..

Public Parsers will have everything out in the open, so there will be no hiding, no lying etc. It will allow you from the get go to see how you compare to people around you and work towards improvement if you so desire.

Not having a parser withholds data from the user.

In all 3 situations there will be jerks, and there is already ToS in place to handle jerks.

In my opinion, the downsides of not having a parser outweigh the potential downsides of having one, and that a public parser is less likely to cause problems than a personal one. This is all speculation, as there has been no research on the subject. Ultimately, everyone gets their data from one game which went from no parsers to allowing parsers, and the data is all anecdotal and not at all scientific.